The state health department announced this week, it had confirmed a case of the U.K. variant of coronavius, in Ellis County, Kansas. Dr. Dana Hawkinson, director of infection control for the University of Kansas Health System, said there is a chance the U.K. variant is in Kansas City and surrounding areas. The A.P. said the … Read more
A note from the Winfield School District: The Viking Theater department is looking for some input. Where were you the day the world changed? They are looking for a few community members who are willing to share what they remember about the events on 9/11 so go with Viking Theatre’s virtual production of with their … Read more
Tickets for Cowley College’s Act One Drama Club’s production of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales are on sale now. The show will be performed Friday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, February 20 at 2 p.m. Though the characters may be familiar, each of your favorite storybook fables is uproariously … Read more
Ark City police did a traffic stop involving a suspected stolen vehicle on Friday, and ended up arresting three residents on drug charges. 25 year old Jose Diaz, 33 year old Amber Meleise McHargue, and 67 year old Christopher Mark Kreidler, were arrested.
The Arkansas City Planning Commission is in the early stages of rewriting the City’s Comprehensive Plan for the next decade. There will be a variety of public hearings and town hall-type meetings held later this year as part of that process. In the meantime, they really would like to begin the process of surveying the … Read more
Arkansas City High School’s performance of Grease is happening on February 4 at 7 p.m., Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Feb. 7 at 2 p.m! A note on the district’s Facebook page says due to COVID-19 restrictions, Grease isn’t fully open to the public. Each cast/crew member is allowed three guests … Read more
USD 465 – Winfield has given an update to the WMS COVID exposure that was announced on January 30th. District staff has continued with additional contact tracing, and has communicated directly with those staff and students directly involved. Due to the number of staff involved with quarantining, WMS will remain on remote learning (level 3); … Read more
Ark City Schools remind, Starting today students in grades PreK-5 will begin attending school in-person four days per week with Wednesdays being remote learning days. Students in grades 6-12 will return to the A/B Hybrid Model and attend school in-person TWO days per week. Group A attends Monday and Tuesday while Group B will attend … Read more
The Arkansas City Police Department arrested an Arkansas City man Friday in connection with a homegrown methamphetamine lab endangering children. A release from the police department says Kevin Michael McKnown, 33, was arrested on suspicion of felony manufacturing of methamphetamine and four counts of aggravated child endangerment. Prior to Friday, Arkansas City police had been … Read more
The City-Cowley County Health Department says, they are excited to be in phase 2 of vaccine distribution. The agency said on Facebook, while we aren’t getting the amounts of vaccine we would need to vaccinate everyone in this group right now, we are working diligently to do as many as possible with the doses we … Read more